The health crisis has not reduced the number of sexual violence.

The complaints for these acts registered by the police and the gendarmerie increased by 15% in June and by 9% in May compared to the same months in 2020. Levels well above those of a year ago, but also by report "at the level before confinement", as well as those of the first quarter of 2021, reports the conjuncture note of the statistical service of the Ministry of the Interior (SSMSI).

Thus, from April to June, this violence increased by 5%.

The statistical service explains this increase by the fact that "in a context of freedom of speech and improvement of the reception of victims by the police and gendarmerie services, the number of sexual violence (reported) has increased since the end of 2017 ".

He adds that this upward trend "was marked in the period preceding the health crisis".

But free speech is not the only reason.

According to several indicators, if there are more complaints of sexual violence, it is because there has also been more sexual violence since the start of the health crisis.

"The confinement has strongly influenced the conditions for filing a complaint"

The statistical service underlines that "the indicators of delinquency have shown very atypical evolutions since March 2020", the SSMSI warns that "the interpretation is proving to be very complex".

"Confinement, he continues, has strongly influenced the conditions for filing a complaint (...) certain forms of delinquency cannot be exercised in the context of confinement or curfew while others are reinforced".

"With the exception of scams, assault and battery on a person 15 years of age and over, and sexual violence, continues the SSMSI, all indicators remain significantly below their level before the first confinement, while in September 2020 the majority of them had found or even exceeded this level ”.

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